Analysis and Public Policy: Successes, Failures and Directions for Reform - Couverture rigide

Shapiro, Stuart

 
9781784714758: Analysis and Public Policy: Successes, Failures and Directions for Reform
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1784714755 ISBN 13 : 9781784714758
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

How do we incorporate analytical thinking into public policy decisions? Stuart Shapiro confronts this issue in Analysis and Public Policy by looking at various types of analysis, and discussing how they are used in regulatory policy-making in the US. By looking at the successes and failures of incorporating cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and environmental impact assessment, he draws broader lessons on its use, focusing on the interactions between analysis and political factors, legal structures and bureaucratic organizations as possible areas for reform.

Utilizing empirical and qualitative research, Shapiro analyzes four different forms of analysis: cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, environmental impact assessment, and impact analysis. After interviewing nearly fifty individuals who have served in high levels of government, and who have made countless regulatory policy decisions in their careers, Shapiro argues that advocates must become less ambitious and should craft requirements for simpler and clearer analysis. Such analysis, particularly if informed by public participation, can do a great deal to improve government decisions.

As this book details the relationship between analysis and institutional factors such as politics, bureaucracy, and law, it is appropriate for a variety of readers, such as scholars of policy, students, scholars of regulation, and congressional and state legislative staff looking to create new analytical requirements.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stuart Shapiro, Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, US

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Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1784714755
ISBN 13 
9781784714758
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
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Personne responsable
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